Dialects from Tropical Islands

Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University. Melvin González-Rivera is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments



List of Contributors



Introduction



Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-Rivera

Section 1. Phonetics and Phonology



Rhotic Realizations of the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto Rico



Alba Arias



Differences in the Use of /l/ and /r/ in Two Communities of Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers in the United States



Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia



Laterals in Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/



Brandon M. A. Rogers & Scott M. Alvord

Se comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: Observations on Coda Sibilant Elision, Retention, and Insertion in Popular Dominican(-American) Spanish



Almeida Jacqueline Toribio & Aris Moreno Clemons



The Sociolinguistic Distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, Michigan



Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez

Section 2. Morphology and Syntax



Explaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York City



Carolina Barrera-Tobón & Rocío Raña Risso



The Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage Speakers



Ana de Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez Soler

Section 3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives



Evidence of Creolized English Grammar in the Spanish of Dominicans on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands



Daniel S. D’Arpa



Puerto Rican Evaluations of Varieties of Spanish



Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender

Aquí no se cogen las guaguas: Language and Puerto Rican Identity in San Diego



Ana Celia Zentella



Caribbean Spanish Influenced by African-American English: U.S. Afro-Spanish Language and the New U.S. Caribeño Identity



Teresa Satterfield & José R. Benkí, Jr.

Index